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Sonic Sculpture and the Performative Impulse: Sounding Things Out book cover

1st Edition

Sonic Sculpture and the Performative Impulse Sounding Things Out

By Melissa Christine Warak Copyright 2025
250 Pages 15 Color & 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 15 Color & 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 15 Color & 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This study considers the performativity of sound-producing sculptures made in the twenty-first century through a cultural history of certain works. A subfield of the sound art medium, sonic sculpture presents new possibilities in sensory engagement with the viewer, creating a mediated experience for eye and ear. Contextualized within three linking nodes of sonic engagement – sonic sculpture as... Read more

Introduction: Sound and Performing Sculptures  Introduction to Part 1. Socially Engaged Listening: Sound and Identity  1. Nick Cave’s Soundsuits: The Clothes Make the Band  2. Kara Walker: Water and History  3. Christine Sun Kim: Engaging the Unhearing Ear  Introduction to Part II. Listening to History: The Speaker as Surrogate  4. Susan Philipsz: The Instrument in Absentia and the Music of War  5. Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: Sounding Sacred Spaces  6. Luke Fowler: Sound Soup  Introduction to Part III. The Body as Sculpture: Performance as Sculpture  7. Ragnar Kjartansson: That Old Sweet Song  8. Phil Collins: The Stage, the Seven Inch, and the Sound Booth  9. Lundahl & Seitl: Curating the Body/Emptying the Gallery  Epilogue: A Speaker and a Wall and What Else?

Biography

Melissa Warak is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.

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